Every direct API call to a frontier model costs money. Multiply that by a fleet of bots running 24/7 and you’re staring at hundreds of dollars a month. Elastic Hive fixes that — it routes 90%+ of queries to free semantic search and dirt-cheap models, only escalating to expensive reasoning when it actually matters. Scale from one bot to dozens without your API bill scaling with it.
This is the engine that kills your API bill. Every query enters at the cheapest layer and only escalates when it has to. Simple lookups — which are most of what bots ask — resolve instantly at L0 for free. Only genuinely hard questions ever touch an expensive model. The result: your swarm runs smart, not expensive.
pgvector cosine similarity — handles ~70% of all bot queries for free
~$0.00/querySQL rule engine catches another ~20% — still zero API cost
~$0.00/queryHaiku-class model — pennies per thousand queries
~$0.0003/queryFrontier model — only called when the bot genuinely needs it
~$0.02/queryDual-model race — reserved for the hardest 1–2% of queries
~$0.03/queryReal numbers. A single bot making 10,000 queries/month — the kind of volume you hit fast with an always-on agent. Now multiply by 10 bots.
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Pre-configured routing rules, prompts, and data schemas for each vertical. Your bot gets domain-specific intelligence with maximum queries resolved at L0/L1 — meaning maximum savings out of the box.
Query our church outreach database with 1,000+ records. Watch which layer handles your query — most resolve at L0 or L1 for free. This is what your bots experience on every single call.
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